Manuscript accepted in Pharmacology, Biochemistry & Behavior
The manuscript titled “Investigating the Role of Glyoxalase 1 as a Therapeutic Target for Cocaine and Oxycodone Use Disorder” was accepted in Pharmacology Biochemistry & Behavior.
Manuscript accepted in Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (JARO)
The manuscript titled “Genome-Wide Association Study for Age-Related Hearing Loss in CFW Mice Identifies Multiple Genes and Loci, Including Prkag2” was accepted in Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (JARO).
Authors include current Palmer Lab members Oksana Polesskaya, Riyan Cheng, Thiago Missfeldt Sanches, and Abraham Palmer.
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Manuscript accepted in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
The manuscript titled “Associations Between a Genetic Liability Toward Externalizing and Behavioral Outcomes Spanning Toddlerhood Through Early Adulthood in Five Developmental Cohorts” was accepted in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
Manuscript accepted in Complex Psychiatry
The manuscript titled “Prescription Opioid Medication Survey: A tool to collect deep phenotypic data on the multifactorial pathways to opioid use disorder in clinical and population-based cohorts” was accepted in Complex Psychiatry.
Authors include current Palmer Lab members Jean Gonzalez and Abraham Palmer.
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Dr. Daniel Munro receives promotion
Dr. Daniel Munro has been promoted to Assistant Project Scientist!
Congratulations, Daniel!
Dr. Palmer gives talk at Rutgers University
Dr. Palmer was invited to give a talk at Rutgers University for the Rutgers Addiction Research Center (RARC).
His talk, “The Genetic Basis of Substance Use Disorders: What We’ve Learned from Humans and Rats,” was part of the Rutgers Addiction Research Center/Brain Health Institute 2025 Plenary Seminar Series.
Dr. Abraham Palmer awarded California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program Grant
Dr. Abraham Palmer was selected to receive a Research Award from the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP) for his project titled “Genome-wide association and fine-mapping of smoking using tandem repeats and structural variants.”
This is a three year, $1,215,000 grant that starts July 1, 2025 and ends June 30, 2028.
Congratulations!
Dr. Palmer gives talk for Kansas State University
Dr. Palmer was invited to give a talk for the Kansas State University Department of Anatomy and Physiology Spring Seminar Series on April 8, 2025.
His talk, “Using genetic approaches to understand addiction-related traits,” was presented remotely.
Dr. Abraham Palmer will continue as Vice Chair of Basic Science Research in the UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry
We are pleased to announce that after a department-wide search, Dr. Abraham Palmer has been selected to continue as Vice Chair of Basic Science Research in the UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry.
Dr. Palmer commenced the role of Vice Chair of Basic Science Research in 2016.
Manuscript published in Nature Genetics
Dr. Palmer is a co-author on the review article titled “Psychiatric Genetics in the Diverse Landscape of Latin American Populations,” which was published in Nature Genetics.
